Month: July 2016

According to the New Internationalist, the Kenyan police are flipping out and killing anybody who gets in their way, scaring the shit out of everyone: Isaac Okero, Chairman of the Law Society of Kenya (LSK) said most of the lawyers pursuing criminal cases in court, such as Kimani was, are at risk. They receive death…

When they’re white, Good Liberals don’t like hearing that their anti-racism is disingenuous. They’re offended at the idea that they aren’t serious, and their anti-racism is mostly about feeling good and impressing other white people. This message from Black Lives Matter Seattle wasn’t well-received: Bernie’s arrival in Seattle is largely significant in the context of…

After every act of terrorism, it’s a cultural ritual that we play dumb about why it happened. In fact, political violence was explained 99 years ago by Emma Goldman, in The Psychology of Political Violence. People were pretending back then, too: To analyze the psychology of political violence is not only extremely difficult, but also…

Joseph Stalin’s The Foundations of Leninism was published in 1924. What makes it different than today’s writing is that Joseph Stalin was a leftist and also a winner. Therefore, his thoughts on winning are worth considering. The text is timely, since inequality in the US has reached levels unseen since the 1920s: The first contradiction…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnEKEfkdrOU The speaker in the video is Amaryllis Fox, a former CIA agent and Twitter employee. You can book her as a speaker here (along with a lot of other famous people). The main point is clearly true: everybody thinks they’re the good guy. It’s an oversimplification that your enemy is a “subhuman psychopath that’s…